Center for the Study of Political Graphics

Center for the Study of Political Graphics CSPG is an educational and research archive of political graphics. CSPG is advancing the power of ar

In honor of Election Day happening in the U.S. this Tuesday, CSPG has selected posters from countries around the world t...
11/05/2024

In honor of Election Day happening in the U.S. this Tuesday, CSPG has selected posters from countries around the world that were made to inspire their citizens to vote. Many of our posters come from countries that voted to prevent or assert independence from fascism and imperialism. In every country shown, people have died for the right to vote freely. These posters remind us that democracy should never be taken for granted. The best way to protect democracy is to participate in it.

Enjoy, reflect, and GO VOTE!

Catch us at the 19th Annual Archives Bazaar TODAY at USC Doheny Library 10-3pm. We’ll have posters and books for sale a...
10/19/2024

Catch us at the 19th Annual Archives Bazaar TODAY at USC Doheny Library 10-3pm. We’ll have posters and books for sale and would love to chat about updates and highlights from our collections.

Posters featured:
1. “A Free Palestine” - Malaquias Montoya
2. “Esperanza Chiapas” - Robbie Conal, Deborah Ross, Inkworks Press
3. “We are a People who Struggle” - Fireworks Press
4. “Of All the Things from the 70’s” - Pro-Choice Public Education Project
5. “And Then All that has Divided Us Will Merge” - Judy Chicago, Picture Peace
6. “Agitate, Educate, Organize”

prema is our research and collections intern this summer!! 🗄
07/02/2024

prema is our research and collections intern this summer!! 🗄

arjun is our media and design intern this summer !! ✊🏾
06/27/2024

arjun is our media and design intern this summer !! ✊🏾

Saturday’s Printmaking Workshop 🔥
06/25/2024

Saturday’s Printmaking Workshop 🔥

happy pride month ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️June is a liberatory month. In 1865, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, en...
06/22/2024

happy pride month ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️June is a liberatory month. In 1865, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were finally told they’d been freed. Juneteenth celebrates this day of freedom every year on June 19th. In late June 1969, Black Q***r women like Miss Major, Stormé Delarverie, and Marsha P. Johnson led the Stonewall Uprising against police brutality and the criminalization of q***r people. Since then, Q***r people have celebrated Pride throughout the month of June.

Tickets for CSPG's 35th Anniversary Celebration are available now.Join us on Sunday, June 2, 2024 at the Skirball Cultur...
05/09/2024

Tickets for CSPG's 35th Anniversary Celebration are available now.

Join us on Sunday, June 2, 2024 at the Skirball Cultural Center for a champagne brunch, silent auction and awards ceremony honoring Artists, activists, and scholars engaged in creative resistance- Barbara Dane, Yreina D. Cervantez, Art Hazelwood, and Robin Kelley.

www.politicalgraphics.org/annual-event-2024 to purchase

CSPG is Celebrating 35 Years of Art & Resistance and you're invited!Please join us on Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 11am At th...
04/27/2024

CSPG is Celebrating 35 Years of Art & Resistance and you're invited!

Please join us on Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 11am At the Skirball Cultural Center for a champagne brunch, silent auction, and awards ceremony recognizing out four outstanding honorees engaged in creative resistance.

Tickets, sponsorships, and ad purchase info will be released soon. Stay tuned.

Fine art and protest posters often share a common tradition: image appropriation - the use of one artist's image in anot...
06/05/2023

Fine art and protest posters often share a common tradition: image appropriation - the use of one artist's image in another artist's work. The more revered or well known the art the more likely it is to be copied, parodied, defaced, appropriated, or altered into a protest poster.

Join us Thursday, June 8th 4-5:30pm on Zoom for a discussion between artists, activists, and art historians on the power of iconic images and their use in collective organizing. Panelists include Karen Fiorito, Ricardo Levins Morales, Teresa Sanchez & Carol A.Wells.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hUW5yHVpReWwutIVa18y1g

Our newest exhibition Taking Museums to the Streets: Using Fine Art for Protest is officially up at Mercado la Paloma!Th...
06/02/2023

Our newest exhibition Taking Museums to the Streets: Using Fine Art for Protest is officially up at Mercado la Paloma!

The posters in Taking Museums to the Streets transform earlier masterpieces into statements about contemporary social issues. Whether supporting rights for women, the disabled, or immigrants, protecting the environment, or opposing war, censorship, homophobia, sexism, or racism, these familiar but altered images attract attention.

Unwind in Mercado la Paloma, a beautiful community space with delicious food, as you take in the exhibition.

May 20 - July 9, 2023
Mercado la Paloma
3655 S Grande Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Open daily: 9 am - 8 pm

Learn more about the exhibition here and register for one of our workshops: https://linktr.ee/cspg

***UPDATE: The workshop time has been extended and will now end at 5:00pm. We've also added 10 more spaces for participa...
06/02/2023

***UPDATE: The workshop time has been extended and will now end at 5:00pm. We've also added 10 more spaces for participants, so share with a friend!

Join us Saturday June 3rd for CSPG’s annual printmaking workshop led by printmaker and teaching artist Ernesto Vazquez . In this hands-on printmaking workshop attendees will be guided through paper stencil screenprinting techniques and will leave with their own handmade print. Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taking-museums-to-the-streets-printmaking-workshop-tickets-630495949357

About the Artist:
Ernesto Vazquez is an Indigenous Xicano living on Tongva lands. He is a mixed-media artist, illustrator, and printmaker who utilizes linoleum block printing, woodblock printing, and screen-printing to create work with themes ranging from political to mythic. His work has been exhibited internationally, yet he prefers to show it in galleries within the local communities of Los Angeles. Ernesto’s ties to family, street art, social justice, community empowerment issues, grassroots organizing and his upbringing in East Los Angeles are core to his process and influence.

If all spaces are full, email admin@politicalgraphics to get on a waitlist.

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